Dongnae seems to be a sino-korean word: Dong means east, and nae means hmm.. Actually, I'm not sure what nae means . Maybe the second character was meant to be read phonetically.

Anyhow, during the Chosun dynasty, Busan city was centered around Dongnae and was in fact called 'dongnae city'. Busan was just the name of the area where some Japanese merchants were allowed by the King of Korea to reside (nearby current-day Busan station). When Japan annexed Korea in 1910, the center of the city changed from Dongnae to Busan, and the name of the city was changed because of this. Ironically, the center of the city is now Seomyeon, close to Dongnae, but I don't think there's a plan to change the city's name again.

Pic. 1.Lungo Coffee. Lungo is Italian for 'long', and refers to the coffee beverage made by using an espresso machine to make an espresso with much more water (generally twice as much), resulting in a stretched espresso, a lungo. View photo in original size (1024x768 pixels).

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Map of Dongnae.

Pictures by Parent within 4 kilometers of Dongnae Neighborhood.

Neighborhoods Nearby Dongnae - Pictures by Parent

Oncheon Stream Neighborhood by Parent. Here find some pictures I took of the Oncheoncheong (Oncheon stream) in April 2009 during the spring festival. Note that On means hot, cheon means spring, and cheong means stream. It is named this way since the stream flows by a.. Distance from Dongnae: 1.7km SE, 29 pictures.

Oncheonjang Neighborhood by Parent. Oncheonjang is made of three words: "On" means "Hot", "cheon" means "spring" and "jang" is another word I am not sure of. I need to look it up. Oncheonjang is most famous for.. Distance from Dongnae: 1.8km NNE, 7 pictures.